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Oliver Twist-CHAPTER VIII Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ dành cho trẻ em nổi tiếng của nhà văn Charles Dicken với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER VIII OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated and once more gained the high-road. It was eight o clock now. Though he was nearly five miles away from the town he ran and hid behind the hedges by turns till noon fearing that he might be pursued and overtaken. Then he sat down to rest by the side of the milestone and began to think for the first time where he had better go and try to live. The stone by which he was seated bore in large characters an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London. The name awakened a new train of ideas in the boy s mind. London that great place nobody not even Mr. Bumble could ever find him there He had often heard the old men in the workhouse too say that no lad of spirit need want in London and that there were ways of living in that vast city which those who had been bred up in country parts had no idea of. It was the very place for a homeless boy who must die in the streets unless some one helped him. As these things passed through his thoughts he jumped upon his feet and again walked forward. He had diminished the distance between himself and London by full four miles more before he recollected how much he must undergo ere he could hope to reach his place of destination. As this consideration forced itself upon him he slackened his pace a little and meditated upon his means of getting there. He had a crust of bread a coarse shirt and two pairs of stockings in his bundle. He had a penny too a gift of Sowerberry s after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well in his pocket. A clean shirt thought Oliver is a very comfortable thing and so are two pairs of darned stockings and so is a penny but they small helps to a sixty-five miles walk in winter time. But Oliver s thoughts like those of most other people although they were extremely ready and .
